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It depends on what you mean here. Physicians can bill for the drugs administered within their offices - these are billed with HCPCS codes on the same claim form as other office services. But a physician office is not a pharmacy and would not be recognized as such for dispensing medications and/or billing to a patient's prescription drug benefit program, unless they were to formally license and set one up in their practice.
It depends on what you mean here. Physicians can bill for the drugs administered within their offices - these are billed with HCPCS codes on the same claim form as other office services. But a physician office is not a pharmacy and would not be recognized as such for dispensing medications and/or billing to a patient's prescription drug benefit program, unless they were to formally license and set one up in their practice.